Hindi Language

Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Uttar Pradesh has started a seven-day certificate course in book publishing in collaboration with the National Book Trust (NBT) and the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). The intake of the course will be 50 students. Amazon’s Kindle e-reading division has added support for five Indian languages – Hindi, […]

Google Allo Assistant Hindi Support The instant messaging platform from Google, Allo , was launched in September this year. Giving important to India, it was actually made available to the Indian users first over other countries. This importance to India is only because of the potential in the 1.25 billion population of our country. First […]

How did you get interested in Hindi? My mother is a retired professor of musicology, and she did work in India and also in Trinidad, where a lot of Indian people have settled. She worked there on Bhojpuri music, and later actually sent me to Trinidad when I was just 11 years old, all by […]

Section 29(2) (f) of The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 states that medium of instructions shall, as far as practicable, be in childs mother tongue”. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 emphasises the importance of imparting primary education in the mother tongue of the child. However, the curriculum and […]

Learn Hindi Language Online – Learn Verb,Words, Phrases and Sentence step by step. People are learning Hindi from all over the world. But its not piece of cake. We need to work hard in a very systematic order, with very much interest we need to try learning Hindi. It will be very fun, once you […]

Maybe you can help? I’ve recently been using one-to-one language-learning platforms online to explore Hindi. I’ve really enjoyed the experience. It’s fabulous to be able to video chat with native Hindi speakers to learn about a new language and culture. I used my time to study the menu of my favourite Indian restaurant and translate […]

Mispronouncing Indian Words. Is it Raamaa or Raama Mispronouncing Indian Words. Is it Raamaa or Raama Now that the season for the Swamis to invade the country is upon us, I am again consumed by the mispronunciations of Hindi, Sanskrit and other Indian language words by Indians when they speak in English. We have a […]

While Pakistan’s special bonding with China is both old and well-known, what really evokes curiosity is that for the last many years large numbers of Chinese are taking lessons in Hindi in Pakistan. Not only the Chinese, many officials of Islamic countries, including the United Arab Emirates, too are learning Hindi in Pakistan. That Pakistan […]

Earlier this year, I had published an article on South Indian languages and culture, “Keep your culture; The challenge for South Indians in Fiji” (FT, January 18). Seven months later, this article aims to explore the Hindi language in light of the National Hindi Divas which will be celebrated on September 14, 2016. Spoken by […]